Saturday
Mar202010
My Desktop Photo 95
Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 1:55PM 
Photo by Andrew Stark
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Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 1:55PM Friday
Mar192010
Round the Sphere Again
Friday, March 19, 2010 at 12:57PM Questions, questions, questions!
Why Do Little Children Suffer
If there is a God? (Desiring God Blog)
Wherefore Art Thou
Verse 4? (Monday with Mounce at Koinonia)
Why Does Theology Matter?
DugDownDeep_Carnahan.mov from Covenant Life Church on Vimeo.
Who Was President?
Knowing during which presidency historical events occurs is not my strong point. Is it yours? (mental_floss Blog)
Thursday
Mar182010
Book Review: The Reason for God
Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 4:55PM 
Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Timothy Keller
I read my first Tim Keller book—Counterfeit Gods—back in November. It’s been a long time since I’ve been as convicted by a book as I was by that one; so when I finished it up, I decided I’d like to try another Keller book soon and settled on The Reason for God. I do occasionally have discussions with skeptics, after all, and I figured I could use some help.
Keller has written The Reason for God for both believers and skeptics. He wants all of us to examine why we believe the things we do. “Believers,” he writes, “should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts—not only their own but their friends’ and neighbors’.”
Only if you struggle long and hard with objections to your faith will you be able to provide grounds for your beliefs to skeptics, including yourself, that are plausible rather than ridiculous or offensive.
The same thing goes for the skeptic. Skeptics, really, are just people who believe in “a set of alternate beliefs,” and it’s only right and fair that the skeptic question his own belief system in the same way that he questions the belief system of Christianity. I’d call The Reason for God a tool to help us all accomplish this by examining both the common objections to Christianity and the positive reasons for the Christian faith.
The first half of this book is taken up with various problems skeptics have with Christianity, drawing from Keller’s own real-life conversations with doubters. You’ve heard these objections before, too, I’m sure.